What a record! The UK album chart reaches its 1,000th No1... and counting | Music | Entertainment | Daily Express MUSIC What a record! The UK album chart reaches its 1,000th No1... and counting Eight billion albums have sold since they started in 1956 and as Robbie Williams passes a remarkable milestone we reveal the stories behind, what used to be known as, the LP 04:18, Tue, Nov 26, 2013 Robbie Williams’ latest album has gone down in music history [GETTY] FRANK Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers was the first album to top the charts in 1956. Back then there was no official list but the music paper Record Mirror was the first to publish a Top Five based on sales. The singles chart had first appeared four years earlier. Most historians recognise Ol' Blue Eyes as holding the distinction of having the UK's first ever No1 album. Since then there have been almost 3,000 album charts. Read on for the 23 facts you never knew about the UK charts... 1.

The first vinyl albums were 12 inches in diameter and known as long players - LPs. Initially designed for classical music and Broadway shows these records were also ideal for a collection of 10 or more pop songs. Typically they played for 26 minutes each side. 2. The best-selling UK album of all time is Queen's Greatest Hits which was released in 1981. It's one of just three albums also including Abba's collection of hits, Gold, and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles to have amassed more than five million sales so far. The bestselling album in the 21st century is Adele's 21 which has sold more than 2.5 million copies. It spent 23 weeks at No1, which is also a record for a female solo artist. Frank Sinatra was the first Album chart topper with Songs For Swingin' Lovers [GETTY] Eight billion albums have sold since they started in 1956 3. The Beatles have had the most No1 albums with 15. Next on the all-time list is Madonna with 12, followed by Elvis Presley and now Robbie Williams, with 11 each. 4.

The Beatles have spent the most weeks at No1, spending a total of 174 at the top. No one else runs close, with Elvis in second place at 63 weeks and Abba with 57 weeks. 5. One in every 20 chart-toppers is a "best of" album. The first was The Best Of Ball, Barber & Bilk, a 1962 collection of jazz songs by trumpeter Kenny Ball, trombone player Chris Barber and bandleader Acker Bilk. The first Now! That's What I Call Music album was released in 1988 and there have been 85 more since. 6. John Lennon's Imagine was the 100th No1 album in the UK in 1971. It took 15 years for that landmark to arrive largely because The Beatles spent a combined three years at the top with different albums in the Sixties. The 200th No1 was Nightflight To Venus by Boney M. 7. Oasis set a chart record in 1997 that still stands when their third album Be Here Now sold 660,000 copies in seven days.

That's the highest-first week sales in history. The fastest selling debut album was I Dreamed A Dream by Susan Boyle in 2009. 8. In the Fifties, musicals accounted for eight of the 17 No 1 albums. The original soundtrack of the musical South Pacific holds the record for the most weeks at the top of the UK album charts. It spent 115 weeks at the top including the whole of 1959 and one stretch of 70 consecutive weeks. The Sound Of Music is in second place with a total of 70 weeks at the top and it's also the album that's returned to the top spot most often (12 times). Christina Aguilera had the biggest drop from No1 album spot with Bionic [GETTY] 9. The biggest selling album of the Eighties, Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits, was one of the first popular albums available on CD. The biggest selling album in the Nineties was Stars by Simply Red. The biggest selling album of the following decade was Back To Bedlam by James Blunt. 10.

The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd is the eighth bestselling UK album of all time but it never reached No1. It also enjoyed phenomenal success in the US where it was in the album chart for 15 years but only spent a single week at the top. Worldwide sales for the record released in 1973 are estimated at almost 50 million. 11. Kate Bush was the first female solo artist to reach No 1 in the UK album chart with Never For Ever in 1980. 12. Influential Rolling Stone magazine rated The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album as the best cover of all time. It features the Fab Four standing in front of a floral garden surrounded by cardboard cut-outs of more than 70 celebrities. 13. Deacon Blue's Our Town was the 500th UK No1 album in 1994. 14. The biggest fall from No1 was Christina Aguilera's album Bionic which plunged from the top spot to No29 the following week in 2010. Duffy's follow up to the hugely successful Rockferry album is widely considered to be the biggest flop.

Endlessly, released in 2010, limped into the chart at No9 and was gone within three months. 15. Since the birth of the album charts in 1956 there have been 23 one-hit wonders. They include Johnny Hates Jazz and The Farm. 16. Popstars, the debut album by Hear'Say in 2001, was the first by a reality show band or artist to reach No1. 17. Vinyl is made from oil and in the energy crisis of the Seventies it became common for unsold records to be melted down and recycled to create new albums. This led to complaints from music lovers that the sound quality was suffering. Other experiments included making albums thinner, reducing the weight of an album from 130g to 90g but this added to the risk of warping. There has been a resurgence in vinyl sales, which increased to 2.8million in 2012, the best year since 1991 when CDs were taking off. 18. In the list of the UK's Top 40 selling albums British artists are the most heavily represented with 23.

America trails behind with nine albums followed by Ireland with three and Canada with two. 19. Michael Jackson's album Thriller in 1983 is considered the first to benefit from using musical videos as a promotional tool. It was his first UK No1 album and has sold more than four million copies here. 20. Abba and Led Zeppelin share the honour of the most consecutive UK No1 albums with eight each. 21. To qualify today for the official chart an album must contain at least four tracks, be longer than 25 minutes in duration and cost more than £3.75. 22. In the first year of the album chart only 12 million were sold. Last year the total, which has been boosted by digital sales since 2007, was around the 100 million mark. This year for the first time since the Eighties the best-selling album of the year will sell less than one million copies. 23. The biggest-selling artist album of 2013 to date is Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events with 600,000 sales. It was released last year and was the only million selling artist album in 2012.

Related articles 1,000 Number ones: A chart history - BBC News BBC News 1,000 Number ones: A chart history By Mark Savage BBC News entertainment reporter 24 November 2013 Close share panel Image caption Just some of the 999 albums that have reached number one... so far Last Sunday, Lady Gaga scored the 999th UK number one album, with her brazen pop opus ARTPOP. But she was swiftly replaced by Robbie Williams - whose Swings Both Ways is his 11th chart-topper. As the album chart celebrates its first millenium, we look at the records that paved the way, starting with the UK's first ever chart topper, in 1956. First number one: Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers (1956) The first album chart was published in the Record Mirror in July 1956. It listed just five albums, and Frank Sinatra was leader of the (rat) pack. Songs For Swingin' Lovers was his 10th solo album and is still, arguably, his greatest swing collection.

First ever album chart 1.Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers 2.Original Cast - Carousel Soundtrack 3.Mel Torme - At The Crescendo 4.Louis Armstrong - At The Crescendo 5.Original Cast - Oklahoma Soundtrack A challenge to the tide of rock and roll that was sweeping over America, it's a loose concept record about a man who leaves his lover and pursues a new romance. Backed by Nelson Riddle's fresh, hip arrangements, Sinatra sounded on top of the world - delivering some of his best-known performances on You Make Me Feel So Young and I've Got You Under My Skin. Given a perfect five-star review by Rolling Stone, it was the UK's number one for three weeks, and the fifth best-selling album of 1956 (number one was the soundtrack to Carousel). But albums were still niche products. Only 12 million were sold in 1956 - compared to 100.5m in 2012.

100th number one: John Lennon - Imagine (1971) It took 15 years for the 100th number one to roll around - thanks mainly to The Beatles, who spent a combined three years in pole position. But it was John Lennon who scored the chart centenary with his second solo album, Imagine. A huge commercial success both in 1971 and immediately after his murder, it is less abrasive and more fondly remembered than his debut, Plastic Ono Band. Every facet of his mercurial personality is on display: He's head-over-heels on Oh Yoko!; vulnerable on Jealous Guy; and venomous on How Do You Sleep? (a thinly-veiled character assassination of Paul McCartney). But it is the optimistic, simple title track that endures. Lennon confessed it was "anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-­conventional [and] anti-capitalistic" but "because it is sugar-coated it is accepted". "It was just what John believed," said Yoko Ono. "That we are all one country, one world, one people.

He wanted to get that idea out." 200th number one: Boney M - Nightflight To Venus (1978) Released in July 1978, Boney M's Nightflight To Venus was the band's most successful record, clinging to the top spot for four weeks. It contained several global hits, including Brown Girl In The Ring and Rivers Of Babylon - but not, strangely, that year's Christmas number one, Mary's Boy Child. The band were the brainchild of German pop svengali Frank Farian (later responsible for Milli Vanilli), who reached a creative peak on this wilfully experimental third album. The seven-minute title track was a freaky space odyssey, which envisaged an interstellar journey to a terraformed planet. "It took almost 90 years to cool down the planet from its 500 degrees to the current pleasant 75 degrees, and to transform the atmosphere to make it inhabitable for Earth people," noted the narrator, over a pounding drum track based on Cozy Powell's hit Dance With The Devil.

It set the record up to be a space-age disco concept album, but the idea was immediately ditched on track two - Rasputin - a deranged ode to a 19th Century Russian mystic. 300th number one: Various - Now That's What I Call Music 3 (1984) Compilation albums were included in the main countdown until 1989, and the Now... series regularly outsold all the competition. The third instalment was released in July 1984 and contained four number one singles - including Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Duran Duran's The Reflex. But the tracklisting also provides a few insights into the year's prevailing social issues. Special AKA's Nelson Mandela reflected the increasing disquiet over South Africa's apartheid laws, while Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel delivered a funky anti-drugs message on White Lines (Don't Do It). Other songs on the 30-strong tracklist included Queen's I Want To Break Free, Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It and The Weather Girls' wedding disco staple It's Raining Men.

The sleeve starred the series' short-lived (and frankly unnecessary) porcine mascot, and exhorted fans to "complete your collection!" by purchasing the two preceding volumes, as well as their VHS and Betamax companions "for all you videoholics". Thirty years later, and the series is thriving - Now 83 was the fastest-selling album of 2012. But the most successful instalment was number 44, which kicked off with Britney Spears ...Baby, One More Time, and shifted a remarkable 2.3m copies in 1999. 400th number one: Erasure - Wild! (1989) Selling 400,000 copies in just four days, Wild! was the second in a run of five consecutive number one albums for synthpop duo Erasure. Despite the titular exclamation mark, it was their most mature record to date, opening with a sombre piano instrumental, and taking melodic flights of fancy on the hit single Blue Savannah. At the time, frontman Andy Bell was one of the few openly gay pop stars and, while the record addressed gay themes (Drama!

is about a "drama queen" who puts his friends through "one psychological drama after another"), the band were careful not to be too outrageous. "If we did an openly gay video, it wouldn't get played on MTV," Bell told Australia's Countdown magazine in 1990. "By approaching it the way we approach it - not being too aggressive or shouting at people, just showing them it's part of life but not the only thing in life - it's easy for people to deal with, and maybe there will be fewer people afraid to come out." 500th number one: Deacon Blue - Our Town (1994) One in every 20 chart-toppers is a "best of" album - the first being The Best Of Ball, Barber & Bilk, - a 1962 collection of jazz standards by trumpeter Kenny Ball, trombone player Chris Barber and band leader Acker Bilk. Deacon Blue's greatest hits reached number one in May 1994, featuring Scot-rock classics like Dignity, Real Gone Kid and their plaintive cover of Burt Bacharach's I'll Never Fall In Love Again.

The band had survived through sudden, head-turning success and the John-and-Yoko romance between frontman Ricky Ross fell and bandmate Lorraine McIntosh. ("Nobody in a band wants the backing singer going out with the lead singer," she admitted to Scotland's Daily Record last year). But, three weeks after Our Town was released, Deacon Blue announced they were splitting up. "As George Harrison once said, all things must pass," said Ross. Now reformed, they released a new album, The Hipsters, in 2012. 600th number one: Robbie Williams - I've Been Expecting You (1998) During the recording of I've Been Expecting You in spring 1998, producer Guy Chambers kept track of the work in -progress on a whiteboard, hung on the wall of Wheeler End studio in rural Buckinghamshire. Scrawled along the top in black marker was the legend: "Robbie Williams' difficult second album (which isn't that difficult after all)." "It's effortless, really," he told a documentary crew who turned up to film the sessions.

An ebullient victory lap after the success of Angels, the album's success was equally effortless - sailing to number one, going 10x platinum and selling more than three million copies. Williams, at the peak of his fame, was so cocksure he could get away with self-aware lyrics like this, from Strong: "In the early morning when I wake up / I look like Kiss but without the make-up / And that's a good line to take it to the bridge." Singles No Regrets and She's The One still form part of his live show today. The only real misfire was the leaden, James Bond-sampling Millennium - a cynical ploy for airplay as the year 2000 approached. In total, Williams has scored 11 number ones - putting him on an even footing with Elvis. 700th number one: Coral - Magic and Medicine (2003) TV talent shows were hitting their stride in 2003, with Will Young, Gareth Gates, Girls Aloud and Liberty X all racking up the hits - but British indie was about to get a much-needed shot in the arm.

Liverpudlians The Coral were among the first out of the gates, blazing a trail for the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Keane and Razorlight. Record-breaking chart toppers Most weeks at number one: South Pacific Soundtrack (115 wks) Album that has returned to number one the most often: Sound Of Music Soundtrack (12 times Most consecutive number ones: Led Zeppelin and Abba (eight each) Biggest selling album of all time: Queen's Greatest Hits (5.9m) Source: Official Charts Company The band had scored a minor hit the previous year with the jangly, Merseybeat throwback Dreaming Of You, and their second album cemented their success. Praised by the NME for its "brutally concise and beautiful pop songs", it spawned the top 10 singles Don't Think You're The First and Pass It On. But the band were taken aback by their swift rise. "The smell of money's got into everyone," singer James Skelly told the Guardian . "Sony don't have any other good bands, there's just us, so everything's being put on us.

I feel like apologising to people in a way, about how in your face everything is." He needn't have worried. Their chart reign lasted a week, after which Robbie Williams' Escapology claimed the top spot. 800th number one: Norah Jones - Not Too Late (2007) Norah Jones reached number one just three years after The Coral, a sign of the music industry's ever-decreasing attention span. The constant churn at the top of the charts also coincided with a downturn in sales, which were sinking faster than a brick in a swimming pool - from 237m in 2004, to 128m in 2009. The decline is neatly encapsulated by Norah Jones' triptych of number ones. Her debut, Come Away With Me, sold 2.4m copies in 2003. The follow-up, Feels Like Home, managed 900,000. Not Too Late, released in 2007, scraped in with sales of 100,000.

A deliberate step away from the coffeehouse jazz of her earlier records, it was also Jones's first collection of original material. She made gentle stabs at politics - lamenting the re-election of President Bush in My Dear Country and portraying the US as a leaky boat in Sinkin' Soon - and, ultimately, the musical experimentation ensured her longevity. "I don't expect to sell millions of records every time. I just don't think that's gonna be possible," she told CBS news . "I feel like I've had my cake and I've eaten it and it tasted great. And I don't need another piece." 900th number one: Oasis - Time Flies (2010) Oasis set a chart record in 1997 that still stands today, when their third album Be Here Now sold 660,000 copies in seven days - the highest-first week sales in history. But, as songwriter Noel Gallagher freely admitted in the ensuing years, the bloated, cocaine-fuelled album was not his finest moment. "Just because you sell lots of records, it doesn't mean to say you're any good," he noted.

"Look at Phil Collins." Time Flies was the band's swansong - a double disc anthology released the year after their acrimonious split backstage in Paris. Over 27 tracks, it sketched how the band "dragged English guitar music out of the gutter" (Noel's words) with football terrace anthems like Wonderwall and Supersonic. Oasis celebrate their 20th anniversary next year, but there is little hope of a reunion. "I don't think there's any unfinished business," Noel said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine this week. "I don't think that we left anything unsaid, do you know what I mean?" 1,000th number one: Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways (2013) In a neat echo of Frank Sinatra's inaugural chart-topper, Robbie Williams' 1,000th number one is also a swing album. Packed with razzamatazz renditions of standards like I Wanna Be Like You and Puttin On The Ritz, it easily outsold the competition, including teen troubador Jake Bugg and boyband JLS.

Swings Both Ways is Williams' second stab at the genre, and finds him in a relaxed, playful mood. Among the covers are six original songs, including the pomposity-puncturing No-One Likes A Fat Pop Star ("When I get faint, I chew through my restraints / The best meal that I've had all week," he sings). "I'm enjoying working and I couldn't come straight out with another pop album," Williams told Q Magazine. "I wanted to do something else, and that something else shaped up to be a swing-style album." The record is Williams' 11th number one - including two greatest hits - putting him on level pegging with Elvis. Only Madonna (12) and The Beatles (15) have done better. You can see details of all 1,000 UK number one albums on the Official Charts Company website . Queen's Greatest Hits Named UK's Best-Selling Album Of All Time | Billboard Queen's Greatest Hits Named UK's Best-Selling Album Of All Time Michael Putland/Getty Images Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and John Deacon of Queen pose in London in 1973.

It was 60 years ago this month that Britain's Official Albums Chart launched with Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers landing the first No. 1 ranking during the week of July 22, 1956. In the interim, 1,100 albums have made it to the top spot, but which album is the top-seller of all time in the UK? According to the Official Charts tally Queen 's 1981 Greatest Hits album is far and away the best seller as well as the only one to have sold more than six million copies in the UK (6.1 million in fact), with four weeks at No. 1 and 158 weeks in the top 40. The band's second hits collection, Greatest Hits II made it into the top 10 as well at No. 10 with nearly four million sold. "What a great bit of news to wake up to!" Queen guitarist Brian May told OfficialCharts.com. "The most popular album? Well, I always thought the band showed promise, but this is beyond our boyhood dreams! Thanks folks!" Queen and Adam Lambert Dedicate 'Who Wants to Live Forever' to Orlando Victims at U.K.

Festival ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits was the second-best seller with nearly 5.2 million units shifted since its release in 1992, followed by the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the best-selling studio album and the only other release to break the five million mark (5.1 million). Adele's 21 also made it into the top 5, landing at No. 4, just ahead of Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory? at No. 5 on sales of 4.7 million. Michael Jackson lands at No. 6 and No. 9 for, respectively, Thriller and Bad, while Pink Floyd's chart perennial, The Dark Side of the Moon, snags the No. 7 spots, though it is the only record in the top 10 that never hit No. 1 (peaking at No. 2). The top 10 is rounded out by Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms, which takes No. 8.

Robbie Williams had the the most appearances by an individual in the top 60 with four, counting two solo releases and two albums with his former band, Take That, who also have a third entry thanks to their first album post-Robbie, Beautiful World. Coldplay also scored three entries in the top 60, with Michael Jackson, Queen, the Beatles, Adele, Dido, ABBA, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac all landing two each. Other acts in the top 20 include: Madonna, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, the Verve and Meat Loaf. Adele's 25 snuck in at No. 27 after just seven months of release and Ed Sheeran's X landed at No 49. Click here to see the full list. Frank Sinatra SONGS FOR SWINGIN LOVERS Vinyl Record Frank Sinatra SONGS FOR SWINGIN LOVERS Vinyl Record $30.99 Frank Sinatra SONGS FOR SWINGIN LOVERS Vinyl Record $30.99 Limited vinyl LP pressing. Frank's romantic masterpiece, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

Originally released in 1956 and celebrating it's 60th anniversary in 2016, Songs For Swingin' Lovers features classic standards and signature Sinatra recordings including "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Love Is Here To Stay" and "You Make Me Feel So Young." Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Was the tenth studio album recorded by, his fourth for Capitol Records. It was the first album ever to top the UK Albums Chart. This album took a different track after In the Wee Small Hours (1955), recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance in the vein of Songs for Young Lovers and Swing Easy! Track List You Make Me Feel So Young It Happened In Monterey You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me Too Marvelous For Words [Remastered] Old Devil Moon [Remastered] Love Is Here To Stay [Disc 2] I've Got You Under My Skin I Thought About You Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve. Packaging All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging.

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Originally released in 1956 and celebrating it's 60th anniversary in 2016, Songs For Swingin' Lovers features classic standards and signature Sinatra recordings including "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Love Is Here To Stay" and "You Make Me Feel So Young." Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Was the tenth studio album recorded by, his fourth for Capitol Records. It was the first album ever to top the UK Albums Chart. This album took a different track after In the Wee Small Hours (1955), recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance in the vein of Songs for Young Lovers and Swing Easy! Track List You Make Me Feel So Young It Happened In Monterey You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me Too Marvelous For Words [Remastered] Old Devil Moon [Remastered] Love Is Here To Stay [Disc 2] I've Got You Under My Skin I Thought About You Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve. Packaging All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging.

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Album Chart, Equals Elvis' Record | November 25, 2013 4:36 AM EST 0 3 2 Robbie Williams’ “Swings Both Ways” (Universal Island) has become the 1,000th No. 1 in the history of the U.K. chart. The set sold close to 109,000 copies to take the honor, as Lily Allen’s cover of Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know” (Parlophone/Warner Music) moved up 2-1 on the singles chart. “Swings Both Ways” is Williams’ 11th solo U.K. No. 1 album, which draws him level with Elvis Presley’s record haul. The new album follows Williams’ previous collection of swing and big band recordings, 2001’s “Swing When You’re Winning,” which now has U.K. sales of 2.3 million units, according to the Official Charts Company. The chart compiler puts his total domestic album sales at 18.6 million, from a worldwide total of 55 million. The swing theme of the 1,000th No.

1 is appropriate, since Sinatra topped the first U.K. album chart in July 1956 with “Songs For Swingin’ Lovers.” Until the mid-2000s, the nation’s first album bestseller was traditionally listed as the soundtrack to “South Pacific,” in November 1958, before new research uncovered the publication of a top five chart by music weekly Record Mirror for the week of July 28, 1956, with the Sinatra title listed ahead of the “Carousel” film soundtrack, titles by Mel Tormé and Louis Armstrong, and the “Oklahoma” movie score. “Go Gentle,” the current single from “Swings Both Ways,” fell 10-15 in its second chart week. The parent album finished a comfortable 67,000 sales ahead of Eminem’s former “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” (Interscope/Universal), which held at No. 2, as its former No. 1 single “The Monster,” featuring Rihanna, fell 4-5. Jake Bugg’s second album “Shangri-La” (EMI/Universal) made its debut at No.

3, as its platinum-certified, self-titled predecessor fell 30-46 in its 58th chart week. Pop band JLS, who will split at the end of their imminent U.K. arena tour, entered at No. 6 with “Goodbye — The Greatest Hits” (RCA/Sony). The compilation contains all 12 of their hit singles, ten of which reached the top ten (the latest, “Billion Lights,” opening at No. 19 on the new survey). Lady Gaga’s “Artpop” (Interscope/Universal), new at No. 1 last week, fell to No. 9. As Christmas-themed music started to rise, Michael Bublé’s “Christmas” (Reprise/Warner Music) climbed 37-14 and Rod Stewart’s “Merry Christmas Baby” (Verve/Universal) 22-20. On the compilation chart, “Now! That’s What I Call Music 86” (Sony Music CG/Virgin EMI) debuted at No. 1. “Now!

85” is the U.K.’s bestselling album of 2013 by a long distance, with sales now past 900,000. Lily Allen’s third U.K. No. 1 single, following 2006’s “Smile” and “The Fear” in 2009, was a close-run thing, as the British singer ended the week just 660 sales ahead of Bastille’s new entry at No. 2, “Of The Night” (Virgin/EMI). Allen’s Keane cover is the featured music in retailer John Lewis’ Christmas campaign; meanwhile her “other” new single “Hard Out Here” took its bow at No. 9 this week. The Bastille single updates Corona’s 1994 No. 2 hit “The Rhythm of the Night.” Robbie Williams’ Take That colleague Gary Barlow debuted at No. 3 on the singles chart with “Let Me Go” (Polydor/Universal), from his fourth solo album “Since I Saw You Last,” which is released today (Monday).

Ellie Goulding’s BBC 2013 Children In Need single “How Long Will I Love You?” (Polydor/Universal) fell 3-4, with the Eminem track at No. 5 and Martin Garrix’s No. 1 of last week, “Animals” (Positiva/Virgin/Universal), is down to No. 6. The most dependable event of the singles chart week was the annual resurgence of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” (Columbia/Sony), which climbed 98-68. The Pogues’ fellow festive perennial “Fairytale of New York” (Warner Bros./Warner Music), featuring the late Kirsty MacColl, rose 113-85.

Songs For Swingin Lovers & This Is: Frank Sinatra: Amazon.es: MÃºsica Songs For Swingin Lovers & This Is Frank Sinatra (Artista) Formato: CD de audio CD de audio , 12 mar 2007 "Vuelva a intentarlo" DescripciÃ³n del producto Descripción del producto In 1954 Frank Sinatra released 'Songs For Young Lovers', his first album for Capitol, with a collection of well known love songs. Whilst others had tried this kind of concept before, Nelson Riddle's arrangement coupled with the sound attainable at Capitol's studio and Frank's distinctive vocals made it massive hit. After a couple of more conventional albums, Frank decided to return to the formula (if indeed it was a formula) for the 1956 album 'Songs For Swingin' Lovers', this time giving the arrangements something of a swing feel. It proved an even bigger success, becoming the first album to toip the UK charts and making Frank one of the idols of the day.

Capitol wasted little time in capitalising on his popularity, gathering together a collection of singles and B-sides as 'This Is Sinatra', another UK chart topper in 1957. Opinión

Question: The first album to be at No 1 in the UK chart (in 1956) was `Songs For Swingin' Lovers', who recorded it?
Answer: Frank Sinatra